Except the attitude to religion (except UK). Muslims are institutionally harassed in many European countries: France, Italy, Germany, Belgium. Only UK is holding up.
Muslims are persecuted in US, but it's never institutionalized. US do not have laws targeting us specifically, while Europe has. It's not written in the law, but nobody kid himself about it when the law is forbidding headcover in government institutions, or France is forbidding wearing "religious symbols" in schools.
It's about variety of products in all aspects of consumption. US has less variety, because it's population is more oriented to economizing than to enjoying life. Of all the products Americans tend to choose the cheapest and the competition is heavily shifted to the lowering the price, instead of other qualities.
Take myself. I have a decent salary, yet I shop for clothes exclusively at Walmart. Walmart has 3 types of shirts, 2 types of pants of which I would choose the cheapest if only they had different prices.
At the same time Americans paradoxically have much more consumerism in their culture than their fellow first-worlders in, for the lack of better synonym, old world.
So, in short, Americans buy more cheap crap. And that could explain the absence of variety.
"CO2 levels in the atmosphere are the highest for 450,000 years. There's been a steep rise since the 1950s, from 315ppm to 370ppm " How the flying can you be so confident in measuring CO2 in the atmosphere half a million years ago?
> Simple questions, like whether the police should have the right to pull over autonomous vehicles, have yet to be answered
Police is driving autonomous vehicles that autonomously stop autonomous vehicles that catch the autonomous eye when local autonomous government needs to replenish its autonomous budget. We just have to watch those events unraveling with detached gaze from the passenger seat in the vehicle of life
Would you stop bitching already? There is nothing that you can do if few wiereless monopolies riled up against you... So stop whining about inability to watch movies 24/7/365 on your mobile device. Who would enjoy that anyway except phone fanatics?
If government destroys lended property, they will give you nothing, no matter what you expect. Choose your friends wisely or stand by them no matter what.
"This fresh water is coming in large part from the rivers running off the Eurasian (Russian) side of the Arctic basin"
Infamous redirection plan of Siberian rivers aimed at turning them towards Central Asia deserts for irrigation and cultivation of massive cotton,etc fields (Americans as usual were more successful and spectacularly succeeded in creating a South-West wonder called Salton Sea).
otherwise known as epic fail. Nothing came out of it. Absolutely nothing just because of that: very small numbers. You don't have to go that far low numbers. Take Iraq war: 21 March, 2003 - 20 M people around the world were on streets. Changed nothign.
(Bombing and killing works though: example Spain)
>It's not "I don't care", but "I don't count".
No. It's how far you go. How far a significant proportion of population will go.
The analogy is being linked to a criminal organization. If you depend on it, and it is closed by the government, your stuff is gone, whether it's physical goods or your data.
If they stole your goods, that would be a different issue, then you are entitled to retreieve them.
Now that I wrote this, I am thinking it's between these two scenarios in case of legit Megausers.
What is this "ads" are you talking about? I am actually surprised that given recent wave of crackdown on users by content monopolies, AdBlockPlus is not getting any attention from similarly formidable advertising behemots.
I think people underestimate gigantic influence of AdBlockPlus on the whole generation. I am getting my content exclusively from the Internet and after several years of using it I only can realize how massive this impact is by accidentally getting myself into AdBlockPlus-less situations. In each such case (occaisional glance at the television set while waiting for your oil change in the dealership, friend's computer, etc) I am astonished by the sheer amount of annoying garbage, which modern ads are.
Isn't this similar to buying stolen goods? If you are knowingly or unknowingly participated in a crime, you won't get any compensations for resulting losses.
The other way to say it is that majority does not give a rat's ass. The only way to stir wide masses of people is to put them to the miserable conditions fast. Ain't happening in the near future. And even if it will happen. A monkey mother of its capitalist monkey children, US would stand on their heads in the case of the economic worldwide flood.
>. It's about time the rest of the world stands up
I wish I had funny points. The only people from the rest of the world who truly stand up against Americans are Mujahedeen and we all know how they are treated both in official media and tech sites.
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"It's mostly institutional harassment of the rest of the population by muslims"
You used the word "institutional", but I am not sure you know what it means.
Thanks, I could have thought of this myself. If only we could date the ice correctly...
Except the attitude to religion (except UK). Muslims are institutionally harassed in many European countries: France, Italy, Germany, Belgium. Only UK is holding up.
Muslims are persecuted in US, but it's never institutionalized. US do not have laws targeting us specifically, while Europe has. It's not written in the law, but nobody kid himself about it when the law is forbidding headcover in government institutions, or France is forbidding wearing "religious symbols" in schools.
It's about variety of products in all aspects of consumption. US has less variety, because it's population is more oriented to economizing than to enjoying life. Of all the products Americans tend to choose the cheapest and the competition is heavily shifted to the lowering the price, instead of other qualities.
Take myself. I have a decent salary, yet I shop for clothes exclusively at Walmart. Walmart has 3 types of shirts, 2 types of pants of which I would choose the cheapest if only they had different prices.
At the same time Americans paradoxically have much more consumerism in their culture than their fellow first-worlders in, for the lack of better synonym, old world.
So, in short, Americans buy more cheap crap. And that could explain the absence of variety.
"The administrator of scientific academy that doesn't even focus on climate?"
"scientific academy " that sends invitation to every single person with 3 publications. It has been a running joke since 1990.
It's a journal club with a subscription fee.
"CO2 levels in the atmosphere are the highest for 450,000 years. There's been a steep rise since the 1950s, from 315ppm to 370ppm " How the flying can you be so confident in measuring CO2 in the atmosphere half a million years ago?
If of all the titles one chooses "former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences", (glorified journal club)
It looks from the summary as if the father ratted his son out. That was not the case. The data was given to the police by mistake.
"Kauser's father gave police a USB stick which was thought to contain CCTV images of the burglary. "
"US cops can legally demand data from almost anyone, anywhere for any reason and countries and their citizens are largely powerless to resist"
US can demand anything from almost anyone, anywhere for any reason and countries and their citizens are powerless to resist
> Simple questions, like whether the police should have the right to pull over autonomous vehicles, have yet to be answered
Police is driving autonomous vehicles that autonomously stop autonomous vehicles that catch the autonomous eye when local autonomous government needs to replenish its autonomous budget. We just have to watch those events unraveling with detached gaze from the passenger seat in the vehicle of life
Me too. At first I was like "Yay!", then I said to myself: "let's wait and see".
That's my jaw dislocating as a result of yawning.
I see. Then we definitely should turn the Siberian rivers to Central Asia.
Would you stop bitching already? There is nothing that you can do if few wiereless monopolies riled up against you... So stop whining about inability to watch movies 24/7/365 on your mobile device. Who would enjoy that anyway except phone fanatics?
If government destroys lended property, they will give you nothing, no matter what you expect. Choose your friends wisely or stand by them no matter what.
"This fresh water is coming in large part from the rivers running off the Eurasian (Russian) side of the Arctic basin"
Infamous redirection plan of Siberian rivers aimed at turning them towards Central Asia deserts for irrigation and cultivation of massive cotton,etc fields (Americans as usual were more successful and spectacularly succeeded in creating a South-West wonder called Salton Sea).
Now that plan does not sound so stupid, does it?
>Then explain the Occupy movement
otherwise known as epic fail. Nothing came out of it. Absolutely nothing just because of that: very small numbers. You don't have to go that far low numbers. Take Iraq war: 21 March, 2003 - 20 M people around the world were on streets. Changed nothign.
(Bombing and killing works though: example Spain)
>It's not "I don't care", but "I don't count".
No. It's how far you go. How far a significant proportion of population will go.
The analogy is being linked to a criminal organization. If you depend on it, and it is closed by the government, your stuff is gone, whether it's physical goods or your data.
If they stole your goods, that would be a different issue, then you are entitled to retreieve them.
Now that I wrote this, I am thinking it's between these two scenarios in case of legit Megausers.
“Let’s boldly suggest"
Let's not.
No, it's attempt to get back true ranking of the website produced by linking by genuine users, not some SEO bots.
What is this "ads" are you talking about? I am actually surprised that given recent wave of crackdown on users by content monopolies, AdBlockPlus is not getting any attention from similarly formidable advertising behemots.
I think people underestimate gigantic influence of AdBlockPlus on the whole generation. I am getting my content exclusively from the Internet and after several years of using it I only can realize how massive this impact is by accidentally getting myself into AdBlockPlus-less situations. In each such case (occaisional glance at the television set while waiting for your oil change in the dealership, friend's computer, etc) I am astonished by the sheer amount of annoying garbage, which modern ads are.
"It's not about what people want, it's about what Google wants" I think you are missing a genuine happenstance in this case.
Isn't this similar to buying stolen goods? If you are knowingly or unknowingly participated in a crime, you won't get any compensations for resulting losses.
>Unfortunately far too few of us
The other way to say it is that majority does not give a rat's ass. The only way to stir wide masses of people is to put them to the miserable conditions fast. Ain't happening in the near future. And even if it will happen. A monkey mother of its capitalist monkey children, US would stand on their heads in the case of the economic worldwide flood.
>. It's about time the rest of the world stands up
I wish I had funny points. The only people from the rest of the world who truly stand up against Americans are Mujahedeen and we all know how they are treated both in official media and tech sites.